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by murderfs 3y ago
Why should my tax dollars go towards investigating damage to your car, when you don't even have a single security guard?
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by murderfs 3y ago
> which provided memory-safety for many many decades now. That is a plus, not a minus.
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by murderfs 3y ago
> Jump over a fireball and you eat an uppercut. Unless a beginner can throw a fireball or another countering special move, they have no chance. > Tekken is also prone to juggles and rushdowns and highly damaging combos generated by pr
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by murderfs 3y ago
> So this controller, knowing the plane was near a fuel emergency, gave the pilots the option to either crash their plane with 240 people on board, or to divert to Oakland. This is tough for me to wrap my head around. They weren't e
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by murderfs 3y ago
What are you talking about? Tekken is basically Knowledge Check: The Game, and the very first level of knowledge check (df+1) is going to be completely unbeatable for someone that doesn't know how to respond. In Street Fighter, you can
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by murderfs 3y ago
> I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG The Pixel team is largely comprised of ex-HTC employees that came over when HTC ragequit the mobile phone business. They started out leading the 3a&#x2F
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by murderfs 3y ago
Depending on the code you're running, calling convention can matter a lot. The SysV ABI will use xmm/ymm/zmm automatically, whereas on Windows you have to opt into it with __vectorcall.
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by murderfs 3y ago
Inserting an element in an array is something along the lines of memmove(arr + idx + 1, arr + idx, (length - idx) * sizeof(*arr)); arr[idx] = foo;
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by murderfs 3y ago
It's not really "applying the law" if you're repeatedly defeated in court.
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by murderfs 3y ago
QUIC (the basis for HTTP/3) is basically the spiritual successor to SCTP, except with TLS baked in, so compared with SCTP+DTLS, connection establishment requires significantly fewer roundtrips (0 round trips for session resumption, 1 r
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by murderfs 3y ago
As a programmer that works on drivers, it's my experience that hardware almost never works correctly. "We'll fix it in software" might as well be the official motto of the hardware industry.
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by murderfs 3y ago
> The US has a legal system that permits a defendant to say many things, like "My buddies and I were participating in a fantasy scenario where we plotted in detail and collected supplies to kidnap the governor of our state... but it
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by murderfs 3y ago
All of this is in userspace.
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by murderfs 3y ago
Android was the prime helper of LTS kernel maintenance. They're the entire reason that LTS kernels even exist! https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jiky5j/linux_510_is_...
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by murderfs 3y ago
> extraterrestrial I knew it, aliens did 9/11!
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by murderfs 3y ago
> They make more in a week than what OpenAI probably makes in a year! This is arguably the problem. OpenAI is loss leading (ChatGPT is free!) with a limited number of users. Scale and maturity work against Google here, because if they we
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by murderfs 3y ago
My understanding is that wild-caught fish have more parasites, but they're required to be frozen for sufficiently long to kill the parasites, whereas farmed fish are exempt from this requirement: From the 2022 FDA Food Code ( https:&#x
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by murderfs 3y ago
Why do you expect anyone here to answer you? You're not the judge, and presumably no one posting in this thread is an attorney representing Google in this case.
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by murderfs 3y ago
The volumetric energy density on LTO sucks ass, even before considering the inability to go to dozens of vendors and order a million lipo pouch cells in basically whatever rectangular dimension you want for dirt cheap, or a custom shape for
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by murderfs 3y ago
Gallium nitride is a replacement for silicon in transistors, and you haven't heard anything because they've won . Any USB-C PD charger you see that provides more than 50W or so and isn't a gigantic brick is a GaN charger. Ta
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by murderfs 3y ago
> For grid storage we need batteries with 30+ years lifespan Why? Lifespan is basically irrelevant even without considering that battery technology continues to rapidly improve: the thing that matters is the cost of upkeep. > in harsh
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by murderfs 3y ago
> As an example, if someone from Canada were to come to the US and blow up a government building, no matter how severe the damage and human loss, we wouldn't dare consider that an act of war by Canada, unless evidence existed that t
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by murderfs 3y ago
For additional context, the reason for this is that LFP cells have a much flatter voltage curve than other chemistries [1], so the BMS is forced to guess at the state of charge by tracking how much current has gone in/out of the batter
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by murderfs 3y ago
> Meta has never showed off demo-able advanced R&D hardware publicly, even when they’ve had it, until now. What are you talking about? They've done this continually : 2018: https://www.meta.com/blog/quest&#
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by murderfs 3y ago
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" - George Carlin
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by murderfs 3y ago
MagnaVolt: the final word in auto security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtqRir7dco
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Probably closer to 1000%. You can get working PCBs of that size for $16/unit from PCBWay: you can probably drive that price down a lot if you don't actually care about the PCBs working. UV printing costs on the order of cents, and
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by murderfs 3y ago
"Superpower" implies an ability and willingness to influence the rest of the world. Europe couldn't even align with itself to intercede in Bosnia, they just left it to a very reluctant United States. Joe Biden said it best:
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Europe, with the exception of the countries directly bordering Russia and Greece (buying weapons to point at fellow NATO member Turkey), has spent decades underinvesting in national defense, arguably freeloading under American hegemony. Now
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by murderfs 3y ago
I'm neutral on protectionism: I'm in favor of laws that are precise and unambiguous, and not up to the interpretation of whatever courts and enforcement agencies wish to impose. For example, which of the following statements are t

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